Sermons and Instructions for the Feasts of Our Lord Jesus Christ
19th c. · Asceticism & Spirituality · English translation, 2026
Source edition: Поучения и слова на праздники Господа нашего Иисуса Христа (azbyka.ru; from the pre-revolutionary Russian edition)
Cover art: The Baptism of Christ (c. 1515) — Joachim Patinir (Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Fifteen sermons for the fixed feasts of Christ's own life (Nativity, Theophany, the Meeting of the Lord, two Transfigurations, Pentecost, the Exaltation of the Cross) from Father John of Kronstadt's 1911 collected works, ranging from meditations on the Gospel narratives themselves to a striking digression on regicide, written in the years after the assassination of Alexander II.
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Contents
- Editor’s Introduction
- 1. Sermons and Instructions for the Feasts of Our Lord Jesus Christ
- 2. Instruction for the Sunday of the Holy Fathers
- 3. Instruction for the Sunday of the Holy Fathers (3)
- 4. Instruction for the Third Day of the Nativity of Christ, a Sunday
- 5. Instruction for the Sunday After the Nativity of Christ
- 6. Instruction for the Sunday Before Theophany
- 7. Sermon for the Sunday Before Theophany
- 8. Sermon for the Day of the Holy Theophany of Our Lord and God and Savior…
- 9. Sermon on the Day of the Lord’s Theophany
- 10. Sermon for the Sunday After Theophany
- 11. Instruction for the Day of the Meeting of the Lord
- 12. Instruction on the Transfiguration of the Lord
- 13. Sermon for the Day of the Transfiguration of the Lord
- 14. Sermon for the Day of the Transfiguration of the Lord (14)
- 15. Sermon for the Day of the Holy Trinity
- 16. Instruction for the Day of the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord
- The Author: Saint John of Kronstadt